(Roaming) Profile and Folder Redirection

The article I quote from is about Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, but still holds for modern Windows Server and Client versions:

After you enable roaming profiles for a couple of users, the first thing that you will probably notice is that logins and log offs become extremely slow for those users. […]

The solution to obscenely long logons and log offs is to use folder redirection. Folder redirection allows you to save portions of the user’s profile in a different location on the network. […]

You can’t redirect every folder in a user’s profile.[…] The folders that you can redirect are:

Application Data,

Desktop,

My Documents, and

Start Menu.

[…] I recommend creating a share point on the server to which you can redirect these folders. […]

To redirect a folder, open the Group Policy Editor and navigate to User Settings | Windows Settings | Folder Redirection. The group policy requires you to redirect each of the four folders separately, but the procedure for doing so is the same for each folder:

Set the folder’s Setting option to “Basic – Redirect Everyone’s Folder To The Same Location”.

Next, select the Create A Folder For Each User Under The Root Path option from the Target Folder Location drop down list.